Lithium niobate photonics: Unlocking the electromagnetic spectrum

A Boes, L Chang, C Langrock, M Yu, M Zhang, Q Lin… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Lithium niobate (LN), first synthesized 70 years ago, has been widely used in diverse
applications ranging from communications to quantum optics. These high-volume …

Advances in lithium niobate thin-film lasers and amplifiers: a review

Q Luo, F Bo, Y Kong, G Zhang, J Xu - Advanced Photonics, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Lithium niobate (LN) thin film has received much attention as an integrated photonic
platform, due to its rich and great photoelectric characteristics, based on which various …

Widely tunable and narrow-linewidth chip-scale lasers from near-ultraviolet to near-infrared wavelengths

M Corato-Zanarella, A Gil-Molina, X Ji, MC Shin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Widely tunable and narrow-linewidth lasers at visible wavelengths are necessary for
applications such as quantum optics, optical clocks and atomic and molecular physics. At …

Integrated pockels laser

M Li, L Chang, L Wu, J Staffa, J Ling, UA Javid… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of integrated semiconductor lasers has miniaturized traditional bulky laser
systems, enabling a wide range of photonic applications. A progression from pure III-V …

Foundry manufacturing of tight-confinement, dispersion-engineered, ultralow-loss silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits

Z Ye, H Jia, Z Huang, C Shen, J Long, B Shi… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The foundry development of integrated photonics has revolutionized today's optical
interconnect and datacenters. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the rising of silicon …

Recent advances in laser self-injection locking to high-Q microresonators

NM Kondratiev, VE Lobanov, AE Shitikov, RR Galiev… - Frontiers of …, 2023 - Springer
The stabilization and manipulation of laser frequency by means of an external cavity are
nearly ubiquitously used in fundamental research and laser applications. While most of the …

Telecom-band–integrated multimode photonic quantum memory

X Zhang, B Zhang, S Wei, H Li, J Liao, C Li, G Deng… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Telecom-band–integrated quantum memory is an elementary building block for develo**
quantum networks compatible with fiber communication infrastructures. Toward such a …

Piezoelectric actuation<? pag\break?> for integrated photonics

H Tian, J Liu, A Attanasio, A Siddharth… - Advances in Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Recent decades have seen significant advancements in integrated photonics, driven by
improvements in nanofabrication technology. This field has been developed from integrated …

Integrated lithium niobate photonic millimetre-wave radar

S Zhu, Y Zhang, J Feng, Y Wang, K Zhai, H Feng… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Millimetre-wave (mmWave) radars are key enabler in the upcoming 6G era for high-
resolution sensing and detection. Conventional photonic radars are mostly realized in …

Fundamental charge noise in electro-optic photonic integrated circuits

J Zhang, Z Li, J Riemensberger, G Lihachev, G Huang… - Nature Physics, 2025 - nature.com
Understanding thermodynamical measurement noise is of central importance for electrical
and optical precision measurements. These range from semiconductor sensors, in which the …